10-07: Counterstrike

[Dracus]

EPISODE NUMBER - 1007
ORIGINAL U.S. AIR DATE - 08.25.06
SYNDICATION AIR DATE - 10.29.07
WRITTEN BY - Joseph Mallozzi & Paul Mullie
DIRECTED BY - Andy Mikita
GUEST STARRING - Morena Baccarin (Adria), Tony Amendola (Bra'tac), Matthew Glave (Colonel Emerson), Richard Whiten (Bo'rel), Gary Jones (Walter Harriman), David Andrews (Se'tak), Martin Christopher (Marks)

The Jaffa take the fight to the Ori, using a genocidal weapon on their new worshippers and landing SG-1 in the middle of a war they can't control.





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This episode? I... honestly thought was dumb.

The purpose this one served was to further explain the fact that the Milky Way is screwed. I think weve got that.

AND to further show how STUPID the jaffa can be. I mean... Do they have ANY sense in electing leaders that arent retarted?

I also love how the entire episode the leader though the humans had taken over the ori ship and were going to blow up their planet

Right... Didnt the jaffa on the ship even bother to comunicate back to their planet after they woke up? And this stuff about honor... I noticed they didnt respect teal'c at all, and they just up and anihilated their entire world, some ori's entire world, and the entire ori ship. Which at the time had their troops on it.

What would have been cool? Some new, unknown jaffa organization who had some super weapon. And with.. probably the same reasons. Because the free jaffa had a rep in the past of being this honorable. Some new guys werent.

Remember when braytak (sp?) tried to ram the ori ship? Yeah.

And SG-1 got NOTHING out of this. Except that there are even more ships coming out.

Ugh, I just feel they could have done more with the episode. And if they could make the child seem.... More human, since she is. just with ori telekenetic powers. Which, made her unstoppable.

At least it had some teal'c weilding two P-90's shooting and making a bucketload of sparks on the ground.

Rawk...

[Colonel Carter]

I think it's believable to have bad Jaffa leaders. After all, their primary influence for most of their lives were the Goa'uld. Chances are, there aren't going to be many Jaffa out there like Teal'c and Bra'tac. They've always been the exception to the rules. No reason for that to suddenly change just because the Jaffa won freedom. If you've spent many years under the influence of a Goa'uld and up until just recently, believed them to be gods, just because you find out they aren't doesn't mean your personality will just change. Jaffa did many evil things under the Goa'uld. Freedom does not equate innocence.

So I rather like that we keep seeing bad Jaffa leaders. I think it makes it more realistic.

That he assumed the Tau'ri were piloting the ships made some sense once the Jaffa ships in orbit were destroyed by it. If his people were piloting the ships, they wouldn't have destroyed their own people. I did find their attitude towards SG-1 to be extremely annoying though.

All I can say is if I were Vala, I wouldn't be reacting to my child the way she is. I'd be more in her face than Vala is. Oh well, different personalities I suppose.

Daniel's comment at the end of the episode, "She's a mother." My reaction was - What? Is this a Mother's Day episode?

[cb49747]

I liked it. Good action with Tealc and the P90's. I think it was just to convient that the ori child didn't die. I also did not like the fact that Carter or the sgc couldn't figure out a way to direct the weapon to only kill people in certain areas, thus minimizing the casulties.

[Colonel Carter]

I think it was just to convient that the ori child didn't die.
I don't think so. Considering the power of the Ancients, I would be shocked if they weren't capable of protecting her from anything. Love the way they cheat the system and get away with it though. I think the Ancients are just wanting to be anhilated. They're probably getting bored with their eternal ascended lives. I mean, what else is there left for them to do if they're not going to interfere with anyone or anything?


I also did not like the fact that Carter or the sgc couldn't figure out a way to direct the weapon to only kill people in certain areas, thus minimizing the casulties.
I assume you mean the Ancient weapon which the Ori child destroyed at the end? Well Carter and the SGC really weren't in control of that weapon. They figured it out back in season 8, but the Jaffa immediately took control and Sam and the SGC left. I would be shocked if they found a way to configure it that precisely considering their current success at figuring out Ancient technology. They still don't have a clue how to build a ZPM and this contraption is/was a whole lot bigger than a ZPM. It is precise to killing only through a Stargate. Thus it only kills the people on a world it dials up.